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G13 Introducing NBS-supportive zoning regulations
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Zoning plans are an important factor in green space planning and are a means to include site-specific preconditions in urban development. Zoning plans are thus often linked to site-specific regulations and norms. In terms of NBS they often aim at protecting green elements or natural features. They are often the basis for more concrete building codes and regulation.
- The integration and synchronisation of zoning plans into effective tools to facilitate and support the uptake of important norms and requirements (e.g. in GIS planning maps)
- Use of zoning regulations to limit the state of soil sealing in specific areas or zones (e.g. via sealing indexes, construction permits, or mandatory permeability).
- Protection and buying back of land that is of strategic importance, e.g. in terms of green space preservation, connectivity or accessibility.
- Systematic reactivation of plots with an unclear land ownership status
UNaLab Stories: Regulatory transparency through interactive planning tools, Eindhoven
The new Environmental Planning Act ‘Omgevingswet’ (2019) of the Netherlands requires cities to feed zoning maps and land-specific information directly into a national platform. By this, it “seeks to modernise, harmonise and simplify current rules on land use planning, environmental protection, nature conservation, construction of buildings, protection of cultural heritage, water management, urban and rural redevelopment, development of major public and private works and mining and earth removal and integrate these rules into one legal framework” (Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Milieu, 2016). In this context, the city of Eindhoven is currently developing GIS zoning maps which will provide an interactive planning tool with area specific information on relevant preconditions and policies.